A Map for the Blind: Poems chiefly in the Scots language - Softcover

Rab Wilson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906817820 ISBN 13: 9781906817824

Publisher: Luath Press Ltd., 2011

Synopsis

A Map for the Blind contains charming poems mostly in the Scots language, written in a witty and observant style. They convey the notion of everyday life, friends, political concerns, nature's beauty, new inventions and historical figures, such as Robin Hood or Napoleon, and other topics that many readers will be able to relate to.

About this title

About the Author

Rab Wilson was born in New Cumnock, Aryrshire, in 1960 and worked in the Ayrshire pits until the Miners' Strike of 1984. He then left the mining industry to train as a psychiatric nurse in 1986. A Scots poet, Rab writes predominantly in Lallans, and his poetry has appeared in some of Scotland's leading poetry magazines, and regularly in The Herald newspaper's daily poetry column. He has performed his work to varied audiences throughout Scotland and has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, the Robert Burns International Festival, and was recently Festival Bard at the Wigtown Book Festival. Rab has twice been a prize winner of the McCash Poetry Prize, is currently a member of the Scots Language Society's National Committee and the Robert Burns Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association. He lives in New Cumnock.

Edition details

• Publisher: Luath Press Ltd.
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906817820
• ISBN 13: 9781906817824
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 156